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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CV64 prices in UK/US ?
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:04:30 GMT
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- ratkins@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Atkins) wrote:
- >Paul Chan (paul) wrote:
- >: stevejc@netspace.net.au (Steve Cutting) wrote:
- >
- >: >Can someone give me an idea of the current prices for
- >: >the Cybervision64 in the US or UK ? Here in Australia
- >: >they're $1000 AUS for the 2MB version, and I was wondering
- >: >whether it's worth getting one from OS.
- >
- >: How much is that in UK pounds? At the moment, the 2Mb board is 330 UK pounds.
- >
- >Way more than that.
- >
- >I recently had a rant about this in aus.computers.amiga (rant? Well
- >actually I accused Australian Amiga dealers of ripping us off :).
- >
- >I still haven't recieved a satisfactory answer as to why graphics cards
- >are an order of about AU$300 more over here than they should be.
- >
- >I just bought a CyberVision64 4 meg card for AU$1099. Could someone
- >please post with how much a 4 meg CV64 is in Germany and we'll do the
- >maths rigorously.
-
- The 4Mb card is 440UK pounds at Gordon Harwoods and they are by no means the
- cheapest, although they are official UK distributors AFAIK. The price in the UK
- is linked to exchange rates for German DM. Assuming 1UK pound = 2DM (really
- about 2.1-2.2), you could expect German prices to be around 900DM, I think.
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